Beautiful…
Very sad.
Happier days at Fairford 1993…

Even they don’t know why they do things. The government scientist Dr Yamuka has proved women’s brains are the same size as a squirrels…
Even they don’t know why they do things. The government scientist Dr Yamuka has proved women’s brains are the same size as a squirrels…
So I take it that “respect” isn’t a word in your vocabularly? What exactly is wrong with treating fellow workers with respect? That is all that diversity training is about.
Again you’re mixing PC with health and safety training – they have nothing to do with each other.
I thought I recognised the condescending rhetoric – you were one of those faceless PC lecturers from my courses, weren’t you? Did you eventually find a humour transplant donor?
If I were a cynic, I’d suspect most purveyors of ‘PC’ were also members of the shady ‘Common Purpose’ organisation, determined to undermine UK and western productivity…
So I take it that “respect” isn’t a word in your vocabularly? What exactly is wrong with treating fellow workers with respect? That is all that diversity training is about.
Again you’re mixing PC with health and safety training – they have nothing to do with each other.
I thought I recognised the condescending rhetoric – you were one of those faceless PC lecturers from my courses, weren’t you? Did you eventually find a humour transplant donor?
If I were a cynic, I’d suspect most purveyors of ‘PC’ were also members of the shady ‘Common Purpose’ organisation, determined to undermine UK and western productivity…
As a Defence Civil Servant I had to attend scores of compulsory diversity, equality, and health and safety courses, which must have cost the taxpayer many millions of pounds. These courses were invariably hosted by pathetic pen-pushing PC (sorry for the alliteration!) humourless twats, types extremely skilled at avoiding actual productive work.
Over the same decade there were no compulsory work-related courses to actually improve my professional scientific knowledge or managerial skills, which to me summed up the Labour government’s approach to the workplace.
One thing is for sure – in a national emergency, like during a war for instance, all that nonsense would simply disappear…
As a Defence Civil Servant I had to attend scores of compulsory diversity, equality, and health and safety courses, which must have cost the taxpayer many millions of pounds. These courses were invariably hosted by pathetic pen-pushing PC (sorry for the alliteration!) humourless twats, types extremely skilled at avoiding actual productive work.
Over the same decade there were no compulsory work-related courses to actually improve my professional scientific knowledge or managerial skills, which to me summed up the Labour government’s approach to the workplace.
One thing is for sure – in a national emergency, like during a war for instance, all that nonsense would simply disappear…
As a serial Balliol cockpit collector, I would dearly love to know if there are any Balliol rear fuselage/tail sections, or indeed wings still in the Elgin yard, but it’s a long way to go on the off chance. If anyone knows what else is there besides a cockpit, I would be very interested to know.
The only Sea Balliol part I recognised at the yard last year was the centre section, mentioned previously, with the control columns sticking out of the cockpit floor…
Perhaps this was the same section I saw in the 1970s in the same yard, when it was more intact…








It doesn’t get any better than this – a 25 centigrade, dry, empty road solo ride down the west side of Loch Ness to Fort William and Glen Nevis, then across through Kingussie and Grantown.



It doesn’t get any better than this – a 25 centigrade, dry, empty road solo ride down the west side of Loch Ness to Fort William and Glen Nevis, then across through Kingussie and Grantown.



On TV he always seems as you describe him – a great ambassador for a incredible generation…
More from Lossiemouth in the early 1970s…
